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penalty shot

noun as in scoring attempt after penalty

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And Ireland's Shane Lowry closed on 17 over par, which featured a penalty shot after picking up his ball without marking it on the 14th green.

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Jonathan Rabinovitch discusses El Camino Real's 3-0 win over Birmingham and his two penalty shot goals.

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Ford, brought on in the 62nd minute to see the game out, planted a long, but straight penalty shot against the post and then clipped a last-gasp drop-goal wide in a desparate, doomed pursuit of a comeback.

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Kuznetsov, centering the fourth line, came through with two goals and two assists, including the series’ first goal and then a wait-wait-wait penalty shot in Game 5 to beat Semyon Varlamov when he finally went for the pokecheck.

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Teuvo Teravainen and Andrei Svechnikov scored in that opening blitz from Carolina, while Evgeny Kuznetsov scored on a penalty shot — a wait-wait-wait move as he skated in slowly before snapping it past Varlamov when he went for the pokecheck — for the 3-1 lead in the first.

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